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- # $Source: /u1/uus/src/xscreensaver/RCS/README,v $
- # $Author: jik $
- # $Header: README,v 1.4 89/02/26 03:47:32 jik Exp $
- #
- # Isn't RCS fun?
- #
-
- This is the source code and all supplementary files for the
- xscreensaver program. You should be able to compile the code right
- out of the box after modifying only the Makefile to fit your
- particular setup. However, if you want the xscreensaver to have a
- mandatory maximum timeout period, you'll need to #define the symbol
- MAXTIMEOUT in xscreensaver.h to contain a string which represents the
- maximum timeout in minutes, and you'll also need to #define TIMEOUT to
- be a string representing the default timeout length.
-
- If you use some strange variant of unix that doesn't use 13-character
- encrypted passwords, you'll need to change PASSWDLENGTH in
- xscreensaver.h to reflect the correct length of an encrypted password
- string in the /etc/passwd file.
-
- If you allow usernames longer than 15 characters, you'll need to
- change MAXUSERNAME.
-
- If your C library uses putenv rather than setenv, you should define
- setenv to putenv. It's undef'd in the stuff I ship out because my
- library uses setenv.
-
- You probably shouldn't fiddle with anything else in xscreensaver.h
- without taking a look at where the stuff is used first.
-
- You MUST link xscreensaver against the most up-to-date X11R3 X toolkit
- sources (fix8 from the X consortium, at the time I wrote this
- paragraph), or it will not work. In addition, you must apply the
- patch in the file toolkit_patch to your toolkit library sources and
- rebuild them. This file contains some patches that, while not yet
- released by the X Consortium, fix bugs that prevent the xscreensaver
- from working properly. They will probably be released by the
- Consortium soon -- trust me, they were written by one of the toolkit's
- authors :-) (not me, mind you)
-
- Any questions, suggested improvements, bugs, bug-fixes, etc. should be
- sent to Jonathan Kamens (that's me):
- Internet: jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
- jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
- BITnet: s20020@MITVMA
- UUCP: {where-ever}!{mit-eddie,bloom-beacon}!athena!jik
-
- Have fun, and make sure to send me your comments, suggestions and
- fixes!
-
- Jonathan Kamens
- MIT Student Information Processing Board
- MIT Project Athena
-